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China’s Import Tariffs on U.S. Soybean Exports 2018-2022: Effects on Information Transfer between Markets in China, the U.S. and Brazil
Turvey, Calum; Gomez, Miguel; de Gorter, Harry; Stelmach, Juraj (2023-03)This paper investigates the impacts of China’s import tariffs on U.S. soybean exports in mid-2008 on price diffusion and information transfer relationships between futures prices in the U.S., China, and Brazil. About a ... -
Measurement of Frozen versus Fresh Food Waste at the Retail and Consumer Levels: A Critical Review and Meta Analysis
de Gorter, Harry; Hao, Jieyu; Just, David R.; Kliauga, Erika (2022-12)Food waste at retail and consumer levels is staggering, with estimates as high as 35 percent of purchases with most discarded in landfills. This study summarizes the literature that shows retail and consumer waste rates ... -
Measurement of Frozen versus Fresh Food Loss and Waste (FLW) at the Retail and Consumer Levels: A Critical Review and Meta Analysis
de Gorter, Harry; Hao, Jieyu; Just, David R.; Kliauga, Erika; Robertson, Kai (2023)Food waste at retail and consumer levels is staggering, with estimates as high as 35 percent of purchases with most discarded in landfills. This study summarizes the literature that shows retail and consumer waste rates ... -
Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries
Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi; Soundararajan, Vidhya (2022-09-02)The issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. The default mod el is usually one of competitive labor markets. This assumption matters for analysis and policy prescription. There is growing ... -
Economic impact assessment of public incentives to support farm-to-school food purchases
Krasnoff, Shayna M.; Schmit, Todd M.; Bilinski, Cheryl B. (2022-09-02)Farm-to-school projects have been widely supported by policy makers with funding provided at both the federal and state levels. Still, many of the outcomes of this inflow of policy and funding remain unclear. In 2018, New ... -
Higher member heterogeneity improves cooperative performance? Evidence from cooperative unions in China
Huang, Bin; Schmit, Todd M; Kong, Xiangzhi (2022)This paper constructs a new conceptual framework around the impacts of member heterogeneity on cooperative union (federated cooperative) performance considering both a union’s capital factor structure and its service link ... -
Ship-owner response to carbon taxes: Industry and environmental implications
Cariou, Pierre; Halim, Ronald A.; Rickard, Bradley J. (2022-05-10)We consider the effects of a maritime bunker levy on ship-owner profits, trade, and emissions. Standard and augmented gravity models are employed using data from 2016 to estimate the impact of a change in transit time ... -
The Coming Battle of Digital Currencies
Cong, Lin William; Mayer, Simon (2022-03-15)We model the dynamic global competition among national fat currencies, cryptocurrencies, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) in which the strength of a country and of its currency are mutually reinforcing. The rise ... -
The Global Inequality Boomerang
Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andy (2022-03-15)In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a ‘sunshine’ narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be ... -
Engaged Learning: Mutual benefits for course instruction and Extension program delivery
Schmit, Todd M; Stamm, Richard; Severson, Roberta M. (2022-01-31)Engaged learning projects can effectively complement Extension programming goals and course learning objectives that enrich the outcomes for both components. A cooperative business management class at Cornell University ...